How do people become mods on these fourms?

Hey guys, i'm 'new' here (I'm saying new because i've been looking around on these fourms for a while, just signed up). I was wondering, how would I become a mod. I don't have much school so I could be on most of the time. Thanks!

I believe it is a trust based system. So people who other moderators trust and people who have been around for a while. But I highly doubt they are just going to let anybody be a moderator.

The administrators decide it. Try being an upstanding and trustworthy member of the community first, though. Mods aren't chosen based on their ability to be on the forums a lot.

Heh, if it was, I would be an admin as well…

Cranium, on 18 January 2013 - 06:01 PM said:

Heh, if it was, I would be an admin as well…

oh the irony…… EDIT: congrats by the way

haha to my mind being a mod is based on helping others and not being in the other moderators' bad books. too late for me :D/> I love helping other coders but my public support and fascination for malicious scripts has clearly been noted

KaoS, on 24 January 2013 - 08:21 AM said:

oh the irony…… EDIT: congrats by the way

haha to my mind being a mod is based on helping others and not being in the other moderators' bad books. too late for me :D/> I love helping other coders but my public support and fascination for malicious scripts has clearly been noted

I don't remember you posting any malicious scripts…. when was this?

Cranium, on 24 January 2013 - 08:26 AM said:

I don't remember you posting any malicious scripts…. when was this?

I never post them, that would be in violation of forum rules :)/> I lack suicidal tendency at least :D/>

I do publicly admit to creating them and am happy to assist people in creating them as long as no permanent damage is done by the code, I obey the rules but the admins in opposition to malicious scripts take note of my allegiances

It seems KaoS your reputation is not as well known as you make it out to be :P/>
What 'malicious' scripts HAVE you written?

Edit: Ninja'd by the reply to my question! Damn.

Also, I too post 'malicious' scripts, but I do so publicly But only ever as a reply to a topic regarding some poorly written code.

If someone posts a program and puts 'Secure' in the title, You can be damn sure I'll try my best to break it.
I seriously dislike people making false claims, and I like to prove them wrong :)/>

I then of course tell them how to fix the issue, because I'm a nice bastard :P/>

NeverCast, on 24 January 2013 - 08:56 AM said:

It seems KaoS your reputation is not as well known as you make it out to be :P/>
What 'malicious' scripts HAVE you written?

I don't think I have a reputation per say… admins have noticed though I believe. I have made:

basic formatting codes (more pathetic giefing than anything but I was new, gotta start somewhere),

a background coroutine/daemon that logs all keypresses, screen input and events that periodically checks for modems, opens and broadcasts all of this information as well as the currently running program and all of the files on the PC, then closes after a second of waiting for instructions which are executed as a program

a turtle hunter pack that tracks down and steals any computer found by listening to rednet, trilaterating position, placing a disk drive with startup override, rebooting computer which then writes all of its files to the disk and installs my background daemon

a startup file that modifies the fs API to hide all startup files and redirect calls to edit/read startup to the original startup file which is renamed to startup2

Generally I use the above 3 together

I also appeared on IRC recently to rant my pride at managing to evade the "too long without yielding" error so I could run one computer indefinately and never allow another computer to run a single line. this has a few bugs though as it eventually uses up all of CC's memory and all computers stop working correctly.

That's the off-my-head summary, I cannot claim to be a great hacker but I still support the cause and that is not appreciated

Hacking is learning, I endorse your learning.. you horrible horrible person :P/>

P.S. Turtle pack sounds very nice, and I congratulate you if you actually got it working.

NeverCast, on 24 January 2013 - 09:24 AM said:

Hacking is learning, I endorse your learning.. you horrible horrible person :P/>

P.S. Turtle pack sounds very nice, and I congratulate you if you actually got it working.

well I really just reversed the GPS API to work server side at the main turtle, not too impressive really. the main accomplishment is the pathfinding to get there which really isn't much. I find the background coroutine the most useful as you can put up a big display on a monitor of what their screen currently shows with a side display of all events received (used to gain entry to even ID based rednet networks as I can send commands to the computer too and pretend to be part of the system). I should add a touchscreen file browser now that I think of it. take a look at what code they have

I am mainly proud of the last discovery as it is essentially CC griefer god-mode. they cannot defend against; detect or anticipate the strike… I love it

I already did the last one, except I used ..startup to redirect to startup :P/>